China Human Development Report 2007-2008

Chapter 1 A New Period of Human Development in China
　Introduction
　The Human Development Concept and Human Development Index
　China's Human Development Since the Era of Reform and Opening Up Began
　Prominent Features of China's Human Development Record
　A New Period and New Challenges for Human Development in China
　China's New Outlook on Development: The Scientfic Development Concept
　Basic Public Services and Human Development
Chapter 2 Basic Public Service Policies and Systems
　The Evolution of Guiding Policies
　Compulsory Education
　Public Health and Basic Medical Care
　Basic Social Security
　Public Employment Service
Chapter 3 Basic Public Services: Objectives and Gaps
　Equal Access to Basic Public Services
　Rural-Urban Disparities
　Regional Disparities in Basic Public Services
　Migrant Rural Workers and Inequality in Basic Public Services
　Problems Faced by the Landless and the Urban Poor
　The Gender Gap in Basic Public Services
　Underlying Causes of Gaps in Basic Public Services
Chapter 4 Policy Recommendations
　Recommendation One: Reaffrm the right of all Chinese citizens to a clearly defined set of basic public services
Recommendation Two: More clearly set out the responsibility of the Government to provide basic public services
　Recommendation Three: Implement reforms in the public finance system
　Recommendation Four: Integrate the rural and urban systems of basic public services
　Recommendation Five: Clearly delineate the mandates and authorities for basic public service provision at all levels of government
Recommendation Six: Introduce a nationally unified policy architecture for the equitable provision of basic public services to rural migrant workers
Recommendation Seven: Strengthen the incentives of government officials to effectively deliver basic public services
Recommendation Eight: Enhance the role of non-state actors in providing and monitoring basic public services
Recommendation Nine: Create a systematic, coherent, and enforceable legal and regulatory framework for basic public services
Boxes
　Box 1.1 The human development index
　Box 1.2 Variants of the HDI
　Box 1.3 The advocacy and evolution of the scientific concept of developrnent
　Box 1.4 Wen Jiabao: Adhering to and energetically implementing the scientific development concept.
　Box 2.1 China's Exploration to New Approaches to Medical Insurance
　Box 2.2 New policy commitments to basic services
　Box 2.2 New policy commitments to basic services continued
　Box 2.3 A new poficy era
　Box 2.4 Reorienting health policies after 2003
　Box 2.5 Minimum Living Standard Allowance for urban residents
　Box 2.6 A comprehensive policy approach
　Box 3.1 Official Policies to Promote Equalization
　Box 3.2 Is equalization financially feasible?
　Box 4.1 Using modern technologies to strengthen government capacity for public service delivery
　Box 4.2 "Use money for doing things and upgrade the quality and efficiency of public services through market mechanism
　Box 4.3 Hainan Province started a comprehensive skills training program for its rural labor force
　Box 4.4 CSO Involvement in HIV/AIDS Care
　Box 4.S Functions of Communities in Basic Public Service
Figures
　Figure 1.1 China's HDI, 1975-2005
　Figure 1.3 China's progress in building a Xiaokang society in an all'-round way
　Figure 1.4 Average life expectancy in China, 2000-2005 (Years)
　Figure 1.5 Under-five child mortality rate, 2000-2007 (per 1,000 live births)
　Figure 1.6 Maternal mortality rates, 2000-2007 (per 100, 00 live births)
　Figure 1.7 Adult literacy rate, 1995-2005 (%)
　Figure 1.8 Average (years) education among people aged 15 and over, 1982-2005
　Figure 1.9 China's incidence of rural poverty, 1978-2007.
　Figure 1.10 People living on less than US $1 per day, 1990-2005 (%)
　Figure 1.11 Education Funding in 2002 (%)
　Figure 1.12 Share of health spending (%)
　Figure 1.13 Trends in urban and rural per capita incomes and total government spending, 1978-2005
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Tables
Statistical Appendix
Bibliography